Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Army usually holds its principal annual war games along the German frontier, but last week, while Adolf Hitler was getting ready to play with 1,000,000 men, the French played their own little game with 20,000 men in the Alps. The problem, set by General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who not only attended the maneuvers but handshook every man in two regiments: "The capture of a mountain pass and the exploitation of its capture by a movement into the dominated valley...
Quite apart from the immediate mobilization, the number of workers conscripted throughout Germany for rush work digging trenches, stringing barbed wire and erecting cement pillboxes every 150 yards along the Fatherland's new "Siegfried Line" (which faces part of the French "Maginot Line") rose last week to 300,000. Road contractors in southern Germany were also busy on rush orders to improve the surfacing of roads leading to the Czechoslovak frontier "to withstand more heavy traffic...
Meanwhile, the German press boiled up with its most furious anti-Czechoslovak campaign thus far; Herr Hitler mobilized 1,000,000 men along the eastern frontiers of Germany; and the Czechoslovak Reserve Officers' Association led Prague patriotic groups last week in demanding that the Government call on Czechoslovaks to fight and if necessary suffer bloody defeat, rather than tamely yield even a fraction of the nation's sovereignty...
...Washington studios of the major networks. If the Government should announce that it was about to set up its own radio station, political razors might begin flying through the air. But last week, when the Government opened its first broadcasting studio in Washington, all was quiet along the Potomac. For the studio is not a station. Its programs must be wired to Washington's commercial stations, broadcast through regular commercial channels...
...pressed steadily along the line he announced as he took office: "Our duty is plain. We must do everything in our power to provide as safe and as efficient a market for the nation's securities as can be devised. . . ." He ousted the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn as Exchange lawyers, a post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with...